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Page 90 of 941929 · PDF PAGE 33
…ral checks; a Plymouth Brother has none. He is always ready to excuse the vilest crimes by quoting the appropriate text and invoking the name of Christ to cover every meanness which may delight his vain and vicious nature. For the Plymouth Brethren were in themselves an exceptionally detestable crew. The aristocrats who began the movement were, of course, just aristocrats, and their curious system left them so. But they ran a form of "Early Christian" spiritual socialism by having no appointed priest or minister, and they were foolish enough to…
1929 · PDF PAGE 476
… of fireworks, in which she is welcomed to hell by Lucrezia Borgia and the Marchioness de Brinvilliers and several other vampires, whose names I have forgotten, having others closer to hand. It makes me weep for Germany when I think the Viereck published such hideous and transparent irony without turning a hair! Americans do not understand irony at all. But Viereck should have done so, considering the Jewish hetaera and the wily old robber baron in his ancestry. But are any tears salt enough to weep for England when I think that none of my coun…
1907 · PDF PAGE 115
…do my part as a law-abiding citizen and take my boot to the offender, as a warning to him and all of his kidney. I shall not mention his name: that he would enjoy: that is perhaps what he hoped. I will merely state that he is one of those unwashen and oleagi- nous individuals who are a kind of Mérodack- Jauneau without the Mérodack, z.e., without the gleam of intention in their work which to the lay mind redeems even the most grotesque imbecility of technique, and the most fatuous ignorance of all subjects connected or un- connected with art. B…
1929 · PDF PAGE 140
140 Dhyana is the name of the first trance. By trance I mean a state of consciousness definitely distinct from the normal. Its characteristic is that whereas in normal consciousness two things are always present --- the percipient and the perceived --- in Dhyana these two have become one. At first this union usually takes place with explosive violence. There are many other characteristics; in particular, time and space are abolished. This, however, occurs with almost equal completeness in certain states of normal abstract thought. {242} The att…
1906 · PDF PAGE 261
…us to all who are not blinded by the spectacles of bibliolatry and deafened by the clamour of priests, presby- ters, ministers: whatever name they choose for themselves, we can at least put them aside in one great class, the Thought-stiflers; and these truths are those which we have long accepted and to which you have re- cently and hardly won. It is to men of your stamp, men of inde-
1929 · PDF PAGE 469
…does not mean Blasted Mutt) did not know; he said it was impossible --- there might be a train in six weeks. Would Mr. Crowley write his name in a book to reserve a seat in that phantasmagoric train? Mr Crowley wrote it; the B. M. might be hard up one day and get a meal --- or an annuity --- by selling my autograph. But he didn't wait for the train. The "British Committee" --- headed by two gentlemen who sounded like a vaudeville combination, Mr Whitehead and Mr Waggett --- asked Mr Crowley what he would do. Mr Crowley would go to London; if th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 512
…at scraps of several such men, distinct from and incompatible with each other, had been pitch-forked together and labelled with a single name. It was exactly the case of the students who stuck together various parts of various insects and asked their professor, "What kind of a bug is this?" "Gentlemen," he replied, "this is a humbug." In writing this book, I was much assisted by Frazer's Golden Bough and, to a less extent, by Jung's Psychology of the Unconscious. But my main assets were my intimate knowledge of the text of the gospels, of the c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 488
…d on Narnet Munroe, described in the charge sheet as a poetess. She edits a periodical called Poetry. I am still not sure if she knew my name and my work, but she showed no interest whatever! She was loaded to the gunwhale with a cargo of conceit. She was the standard of perfection by which Milton and Keats might be measured in terms of their inferiority to her. Incidentally these two were bracketed zero. The first article of her faith was that rhythm and rime were incompatible with poetry. Her creed contained many similar dogmas, all fixed wit…
1906 · PDF PAGE 286
…the first year yet. Is this coin current? Afyst. Ah! I remember now your phrase ‘Dhyana a debaucn.’’ You are of course familiar with the name of Maudsley, perhaps the greatest living authority on the brain? Scept, None greater. Afjst. By rare gocd fortune, at the very moment when this aspect of the question was confronting me, and I was (so any one would have imagined) many thousand miles from expert opinion, I had the opportunity of putting the matter before him. Our conversa- tion was pretty much as foliows: ‘* What is the cause of the phenom…
1929 · PDF PAGE 442
…eemasonry and its superstructures; in the nineteenth century, principally owing to the energy {700} and ability of a wealthy iron master named Karl Kellner, a reconstruction and consolidation of traditional truth had been attempted. A body was formed under the name O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientis) which purported to achieve this result. It purported to communicate the secrets, not only of freemasonry (with the Rites of 3°, 7°, 33°, 90°, 97°, etc.,) but of the Gnostic Catholic Church, the Martinists, the Sat Bhai, the Rosicrucians, the Knights of t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 435
…for her own sake as one of the most remarkable characters I have ever known and for the influence of her intervention on my affairs. Her name was Vittoria Cremers. She claimed to be the bastard of a wealthy English Jew and to have married a knavish Austrian baron. She was an intimate friend of Mabel Collins, authoress of The Blossom and the Fruit, the novel which has left so deep a mark upon my early ideas about Magick. In 1912 she was in her fifties. Her face was stern and square, with terribly intense eyes from which glared an expression of i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 322
…mediately hand it back with a charming compliment. This is the lesson of the Book of Job. I quote the entry in full, concealing only the name of the Order. At Kobe. A.'. fair only; though I invoked all these powers of mine. Yet after, by a strong effort of will, I banished my sore throat and my surroundings, and went up in my Body of Light. Reached a room in which a cruciform table was spread, a naked man being nailed thereto. Many venerable men sat around, feasting on his living flesh and quaffing his hot blood. These (I was told) were the ade…
1906 · PDF PAGE 204
…s Curse of Kehama. 339. Gaurtsankar.538— Called also Chomo- kankar, Devadhunga, and Everest. 341. Chogo.*4—The Giant. This is the native name of ‘‘ K2”; or Mount Godwin-Austen, as Col. Godwin-Austen would call.it. It is the second highest known mountain in the world, as Devadhunga is the first. 356. The history of the West,5— De Acosta (José) Natural and Moral His- tory of the Indies. Alison, Sir A. History of Scotland. Benzoni History of the New World. Buckle. . History of Civilisation. Burton, J. H. History of Scotland. Carlyle History of Fre…
1929 · PDF PAGE 114
114 It is a very curious trait. I used to refuse, sometimes under embarrassing pressure, to taste things whose appearance or whose name displeased me. I would not eat jam, even as a child, because it looked messy. I must have been nearly forty before I would touch salad. It seems absurd. I was very bond of lobster mayonnaise; but lobster salad, never! I dislike the combination of consonants. The word suggests something indefinite. It gives the effect of French poetry, where the absence of accentuation emasculates the rhythm. I found myself spir…
1929 · PDF PAGE 477
… the enemy's secrets and they sent me a test question on a matter of no importance --- did I know who, if anybody, was passing under the name of so-and-so? I was not going to risk my precarious position asking questions. The official English idea of a secret agent seemed to be that he should act like {753} a newspaper reporter. The result was that the negotiations came to very little, though I turned in reports from time to time.1 There was a Temporary Gentleman named H...d in the British Military Mission with whom I had such dealings as is pos…
1929 · PDF PAGE 428
… of the book, it was of course to consist of four parts. I carried out this idea by expressing the nature of the Tetrad, not only by the name and plan of the book, but by issuing it in the shape of a square 4 inches by 4, and pricing each part as a function of 4. Part One was published at 4 groats, Part Two at 4 tanners, Part Three was to cost 3 "Lloyd George groats" (at this time the demagogue was offering the workman ninepence for fourpence, by means of an insurance swindle intended to enslave him more completely than ever). Part Four, 4 shil…
1906 · PDF PAGE 245
… argue that an Infi- nite intelligence must have been at work on this cosmos. I reply No! There is no intelligence at work worthy of the name. The Laws of Nature may be generalised in one—the Law of Inertia. Everything moves in the direction determined by the path of least resistance; species arise, develop, and die as their collec- tive inertia determines; to this Law there is no exception but the doubtful one of Free- will; the Law of Destiny itself is formally and really identical with it.” 1 Causality is itself a secondary, and in its limit…
1907 · PDF PAGE 251
…at we had to spend, ii. 83 The magical task and the labour is ended, ill, 200 The Meeting-Hoise of the Brethren Gathered Together To The Name Of The Lord Jesus, ili. 46 The mere result of all this was a dream, ii, 67 The metaphysics of these verses, ii. 170 The mighty sound of forests, i. 51 The mind with visions clouded, i. 50 The moon spans Heaven’s architrave, ii. 63 The night is void of stars: the moon is full, ili, 62 The ‘‘ Nineteenth Mahakalpa”’ brought out its April Number, ii. 230 Then let not memory shrink abashed, iii. 10 Then one-th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 385
…bson." The statement is incredible as it stands. Jobson and I, however, have a secret understanding known to nobody else that any proper name in our communications shall stand for something else, discoverable by taking a = 1, b = 2, and so on, thus giving a number whose meaning is to be bound in a code, in which each item of my estate represents a number. He has never used the word "London" before. I add it up, refer to the code and learn that London must mean my house. Now, whether I have already heard the news or no, and even if investigation…
1929 · PDF PAGE 86
…e incident amuses me greatly. Students were exempt from the general law and could not be punished for any act which was not mentioned by name in the statues. The brighter spirits would then accordingly search the statues for gaps. It was, for instance, strengstens verboten to tie night-watchmen to lightning conductors during thunderstorms. Eckenstein and his friends waited accordingly for the absence of thunderstorms and then proceeded to tie up the watchmen. He was as thoroughly anglicized as possible. The chief mark of the old Adam was a tend…